Re: Installation List of Packages [Security]

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:31:18 -0800, Guy Koehler
<rivendellranch@centurytel.net> wrote:
> Andrea Vettorello wrote, "On the Debian web home page (www.debian.org)
> [there is] a link to http://www.debian.org/security with all the
> [information] on the updated packages from the security team."
> 
> Thank you, and yes, I have already read through those Security pages;
> unfortunately, they do not explain what the term [security] means when it is
> placed next to a package in the Debian installation release.
> 
> For example, in http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/, what does the tag
> "[security]" mean? Does it mean (1) that there are security problems with
> the package, (2) there is a security advisory, or (3) that the given package
> is a security update solving a known problem?
> 

The latter. 


Andrea